Water-cooler.



Patented Oct. 14, I902.

C. A. TATUM.

WATER COOLER.

(Application filed. Aug. 1, 1902.\

(No Model.)

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WITNESSES Z INVENTOR I M dch M a/dflxmw W ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. TATUM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO NVHITALL TATUM COMPANY, OF BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WATER-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 71 1,020, dated October 14, 1902.

Application filed August 1,1902. Serial No. 117,937. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: either the ice-receptacle or the inner cover,

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. TATUM, a the latter is provided with an aperture C citizen of the United States, residing in the preferably of elongated shape, so that water borough of Manhattan,city,county, and State may be poured directly into the annular space 5 of New York, have invented certain new and between the two receptacles A and B. It will useful Improvements in \Vater- Coolers, of be observed that the aperture (J is located which the following is a specification. atalower level than the open upperend of the The object of my invention is to provide'a ice-receptacle, and thus the accidental introwater-cooler which will be strong and duraduction ofice'into the water-receptacle isren- 1o ble and which will keep the water in proper dered very improbable.

cool condition without any danger of contami- In order that no dust or other foreign matnation by dust or other foreign matter. ter may enter the apparatus through the To this end my invention consists in ceropening G I have provided an outer cover F, tain features of construction, as will be fully having a bottom flange F, which fits on the 15 described hereinafter and particularly pointouter portion of the rim A, against the outer ed out in the appended claims. edge of the flange C, if desired. The outer Reference is to be had to the accompanying cover may be provided with a handle F drawings, in Which Modifications of my invention as long as Figure l is an outside view of my improved they remain Within the scope of the appended 2o water-cooler. Fig. 2 is a central sectional claims will constitute no departure from the elevation thereof on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, and nature of my invention.

Fig. 3 is a plan with the outside cover re- The apparatus may be used for coolingbev- 7o moved. erages and liquids other than water.

The improved cooler comprises an outer What I claim as new, and desire to secure receptacle A,generally made of glass and proby Letters Patent, is-

vided with a thickened rim A at its upper. l. A cooler, comprising an outer receptaedge. At its lower portion the receptacle A cle for the liquid, an inner cover arranged to 73 has a cook or faucet 'B, which may be of any rest on the upper edge of said receptacle and suitable construction. Upon the inner edge having a central opening, and also having a 30 of the rim A is adapted to rest the inner lateral opening below said central opening to cover O, which for this purpose is provided allow the said receptacle to be filled with wawith a flange O. The upper end of the cover ter, an ice-receptacle supported on said inner O is made with a central aperture and with cover at the central opening thereof, a cover a seat adapted to receive the ice-receptacle for weighting and closing the top of the ice- 35 D, which has a flange D at its upper end to receptacle, and an outside cover which rests support it upon the seat of the inner cover on the upper edge of the first-named recep- O. Thisice-receptaole also is generally made tacle exteriorly of the inner cover. of glass. The size of the ice-receptacle is '2. A cooler, comprising an outer receptacle such that it cannot touch the bottom of the adapted to receive the liquid, an inner cover 40 outer receptacle A, thus preventing a breaksupported on said receptacle and provided age of the inner receptacle by contact with the with a central opening and also with a latouter one. In order that the water contained eral opening, an ice-receptacle supported on in the outer receptacle may not float the icesaid inside cover at the central opening therereceptacle, a weight E may be placed on top of, and an outside cover surrounding the in- 45 of the ice-receptacle, and this weight, as also side cover and the upper end of the ice-recepshown, will serve as a cover for the ice-receptacle.

tacle. In order that the outer receptacle 8. Acooler, comprisinga liquid-receptacle,

may be filled with water without removing an inside cover resting on the inner portion of the upper edge of said receptacle, and pro- I In testimony whereof I have signed my vided with a. central top aperture and also name to this specification in the presence of with a lateral opening at a lower level, an icethe two subscribing Witnesses.

receptacle suspended within the liquid-recep- CHARLES A. TATUM. 5 taele and resting on the said inner cover, and Witnesses: 4

an outside cover resting on the upper edge of A. H. TATUM,

the liquid-receptacle. EUGENE EBLE. 

